Buffalo Bill Historical Center - Cody, Wyoming, United States
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center Cody
This museum, along with the Plains Indian Museum, gives visitors the opportunity to learn about Native American life.
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- ... Après-midi fort instructive dans le Buffalo Bill Historical Center qui rassemble 5 musées aux thèmes complémentaires ...
- ... Saturday 8/20 We started the day at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center with it's 5 museums - Cody Firearms, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Plains Indian Museum, Buffalo Bill Museum and the Draper ...
- ... We visited the Buffalo Bill Historical Center which is a complex of five museums celebrating the culture of the west ...
- ... From the nightly shoot-out in front of the Irma Hotel to the internationally-recognized Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the Wild West is all around ...
- ... We then went to more museums located in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody ...
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Great Museum in a Small Town
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The first reaction most people have when they see the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is awe at how surprisingly large and impressive it is for a museum in a small Western town far from urban centers. How did such a large museum end up in Cody, Wyoming?
Cody, Wyoming is located on Routes 14, 20, and 16 out to Yellowstone National Park. We are just 50 miles outside of the East Gate.
It all started when the town founder, William F. Buffalo Bill Cody, passed away in 1917. The people in the town wanted to create something to memorialize him. They started the Buffalo Bill Historical Society, but that was only the beginning!
The Wyoming State Legislature designated $5,000 dollars toward the construction of a museum in honor of Buffalo Bill. The original Buffalo Bill Museum was impressive and wonderful, but it was quite a bit smaller than the current facility.
Meanwhile, many people in the town wanted a statue to honor their founder. Through useful connections, town members managed to contact Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a famous artist and heiress. As it turned out, she always had a great deal of interest in Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill had many fans, especially since he was quite possibly one of the most famous men in the world at the turn of the 20th century.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney came with her son C.V. Whitney in 1923 in order to survey the site for a new statue that would become the centerpiece of the town. That statue is now known as Buffalo Bill--the Scout.
The town of Cody imagined that the statue would go in the center of town, but Mrs. Vanderbilt Whitney thought the statue deserved a grander backdrop that included scenic views of the mountains. She purchased 40 acres of land for the statue.
It wasn't until 1959 that C.V. Whitney came back to Cody and intended to create a museum to honor his mother. He donated $250,000 and founded the Whitney Gallery of Western Art. $250,000 dollars is certainly a large sum of money in present day; however, it was was a staggering amount in 1959.
This event was the beginning of the current Buffalo Bill Center of the West. In 1969, after it became clear that the Buffalo Bill Museum didn't have enough room to house all of their incredible artifacts, and with the completion of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, the Buffalo Bill Museum moved into the same building as the Whitney and formed the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has expanded many times over the years and now holds five incredible galleries, all focused on different aspects of the American West. The five major topics of each gallery are Western American art, the culture of the Plains Indian peoples, Buffalo Bill and western history, firearms, and the natural history of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
We would love to have you visit on your way in or out of Yellowstone National Park; we're located on the same road that goes to the East Gate of Yellowstone--less than an hour from our front door!
There is something for everyone here. Come explore!
Comfort Inn at Buffalo Bill Village Resort - Cody Hotels, Wyoming
Comfort Inn at Buffalo Bill Village Resort 3 Stars Hotel in Cody, Wyoming Within US Travel Directory The Comfort Inn at Buffalo Bill Village Resort is ideally located downtown, just two miles from the Yellowstone Regional Airport.
This hotel is convenient to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, featuring the Buffalo Bill Museum, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Plains Indian Museum, Cody Firearms Museum and Draper Museum of Natural History.
There are many restaurants, cocktail lounges and specialty shops located in the surrounding area.
Full-service features and amenities include, free airport transportation, free wireless high-speed Internet access, free local calls, free local newspaper.
Your Morning Breakfast is full of hot and delicious options, making breakfast at the Comfort Inn at Buffalo Bill Village Resort the perfect way to start your day.
Enjoy our free hot breakfast featuring eggs, meat, yogurt, fresh fruit, cereal and more, including your choice of hot waffle flavors!Business travelers will appreciate conveniences like access to copy and fax services and competitive corporate rates.
There are banquet and meeting facilities located adjacent to this Cody, WY hotel.
All spacious guest rooms feature irons, ironing boards, coffee makers, hair dryers and cable television.
Connecting rooms are available.
Refrigerators and microwaves can be requested.
Comfort Inn at Buffalo Bill Village Resort - Cody Hotels, Wyoming
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The Buffalo Bill Center of the West - Long Live the Wild West!
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, is where the American West lives. Find your true West here in our five museums: Buffalo Bill Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum, Plains Indian Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, and Draper Natural History Museum. Visit us in person or online at
Buffalo Bill Center of the West: 2004 Promotional Video
Promotional video for Buffalo Bill Center of the West, 2004. Draper Natural History Museum, Plains Indian Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, Buffalo Bill Museum, in Cody Wyoming, near Yellowstone National Park. For more information about the Center, feel free to visit our website
Carol Clark: Forged & Founded Western Sculpture Symposium
The ancient technique of casting sculpture in bronze took a fresh turn in 1849, when Henry Kirke Brown created The Choosing of the Arrow, one of the first bronze sculptures cast in the United States. This lecture considers the trajectory of that casting—from statuettes for an emerging class of collectors to monumental bronzes that graced new, grand public spaces across the country. Professor Clark focuses on sculptors’ choice of Western American subject matter to understand how Indians, cowboys, and animals unique to North America reinforced a growing nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century.
Presentation from the Forged & Founded Western Sculpture Symposium. Whitney Western Art Museum, Cody, Wyoming.
Kevin Red Star on his color palette
Native artist, Kevin Red Star, speaks about his choice of colors for the painting, Crow Indian Parade Rider, 1982, in the Whitney Western Art Museum's permanent collection. For more information about the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, located in Cody, Wyoming, feel free to visit our website
Jackson Hole Shopping
Jackson Hole shopping is a great way to discover the town. Everything from western and contemporary art, outdoor gear, cowboy hats, clothing, antiques and souvenirs to high-end home-wares and jewelry can be found shopping in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Jackson Pollock Paintings @ Guggenheim Venice, Italy
Paul Jackson Pollock was born January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming. He grew up in Arizona and California and in 1928 began to study painting at the Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles. In the fall of 1930, Pollock moved to New York and studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Benton encouraged him throughout the succeeding decade. By the early 1930s, Pollock knew and admired the murals of José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera. Although he traveled widely throughout the United States during the 1930s, much of Pollock's time was spent in New York, where he settled permanently in 1934 and worked on the WPA Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1942. In 1936, he worked in David Alfaro Siqueiros's experimental workshop in New York.
Pollock's first solo show was held at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery, New York, in 1943. Peggy Guggenheim gave him a contract that lasted through 1947, permitting him to devote all his time to painting. Prior to 1947, Pollock's work reflected the influence of Pablo Picasso and Surrealism. During the early 1940s, he contributed paintings to several exhibitions of Surrealist and abstract art, including Natural, Insane, Surrealist Art at Art of This Century in 1943, and Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, organized by Sidney Janis at the Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, in 1944.
From the fall of 1945, when artist Lee Krasner and Pollock were married, they lived in The Springs, East Hampton, New York. In 1950, Peggy Guggenheim arranged for Pollock's first solo show in Europe, in the Ala Napoleonica, Venice. His first retrospective was organized in 1952 by Clement Greenberg at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont. He was included in many group exhibitions, including the Annuals at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from 1946 and the Venice Biennale in 1950. Although his work was widely known and exhibited internationally, the artist never traveled outside the United States. He was killed in an automobile accident on August 11, 1956, in the Springs.
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Celebrating the East Building Twentieth-Century Art Series, Part 9: Abstract Expressionism
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. From the mid-1940s through the 1950s painters in New York imbued their work with a heady new confidence, scale, and energy. Before and during World War II European émigrés poured into New York, including artists Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, and the writer and surrealist leader André Breton. Their influence led to the exploration of biomorphic forms, archaic themes, and accidental processes designed to unleash the unconscious, like dripping and scraping. It is in the large canvases of the 1950s, by Jackson Pollock and others, that what one critic called “the triumph of American painting” can really be felt. These paintings increased ambition and introduced new techniques: Pollock’s rhythmic pours and drips, Clyfford Still’s dry palette-knifing, Newman’s masking-taped “zips,” Franz Kline’s chiseled gestures, and Joan Mitchell’s flurries of strokes. This generation of artists revealed new horizons in the practice of painting and the experience of viewing. As part of the series Celebrating the East Building: 20th-Century Art, senior lecturer David Gariff explores the triumph of American painting in postwar America. This lecture was presented on August 14, 2018, at the National Gallery of Art.
Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred on June 25--26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Chief Gall, inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull . The U.S. 7th Cavalry, including the Custer Battalion, a force of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer, suffered a severe defeat. Five of the 7th Cavalry's companies were annihilated; Custer was killed, as were two of his brothers, a nephew, and a brother-in-law. The total U.S. casualty count, including scouts, was 268 dead and 55 injured.
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